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Somehow, strangely (and to us sometimes even annoyingly), the Creator God will not simply abolish evil from his world. The question that swirls around these discussions is, Why not? We are not given...

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.

God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

In this stirring and thoughtful argument, N.T. Wright illustrates the complexity of evil by telling the story of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his return to his home country of Russia after many years in...

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

In a poignant tribute written after his son’s passing in a climbing accident, Nicholas Wolterstorff reflects: When we have overcome absence with phone calls, winglessness with airplanes, summer he...

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality, but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

Ancient lens What’s the historical context? Wisdom Song It is not too far a stretch to imagine an eager young person sitting at the feet of a well-seasoned elder and receiving the words of thi...

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

When you pass beyond good and evil, you pass into the realm where might is right, and where anything that reminds you of the old moral values—for instance, a large Jewish community—stands in your way ...

The knowledge of good and evil seems to be the aim of all ethical reflection. The first task of Christian ethics is to invalidate this knowledge.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf, unbelief s...

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

We do not know why God’s judgment makes a good man poor, and a wicked man rich. . . . Nor why the wicked man enjoys the best of health, while the man of religion wastes away in illness. . . . Even the...

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also...

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.